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From: Mark Summerfield <mark@qtrac.eu>
Subject: Re: is it possible to programmatically access Tcllib and Tklib
 versions?
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On Wed, 26 Jun 2024 16:31:58 -0000 (UTC), Rich wrote:

> Mark Summerfield <mark@qtrac.eu> wrote:
>> For a --help option or for an About box I like to show lib versions.
>> This is easy for Tcl and for Tk, e.g.
>> 
>> "Tcl v$::tcl_patchLevel/Tk v$::tk_version"
>> 
>> But I can't see how to get the versions of Tcllib and Tklib. Is this
>> possible?
> 
> I don't think so, as each module within tcllib is separately versioned.
> 
> You can show the versions by either capturing the return from package
> require, or by rerunning package require at the time you want the data:
> 
>     $ rlwrap tclsh % package require cmdline 1.5.2 % set cmdline_ver
>     [package require cmdline]
>     1.5.2 % puts "cmdline version is $cmdline_ver" cmdline version is
>     1.5.2 %

Ok, understood. Thanks.